Caribbean
Primary topics include Cuba and the Cuban Revolution as well as Grenada and the New Jewel Movement.
Subcollections
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Cuba
This collection primarily contains recordings focusing on various aspects of life in Cuba after their Communist Revolution.
Documents
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Che Guevara in New York [mp3]
Che Guevara is asked many questions by American journalists. Translated from Spanish on the spot. Questions range from bureaucracy, Cuban propaganda, the Black struggle in America, Puerto Rico. When asked, “Do you think it will be possible for Latin America to live in peace without the fall of the U.S. Government”? He replies that the question is difficult but there will be a need for struggle.
Youth in Cuba
Date: 6/12/1974Call Number: KP 243Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Gayle Markow (Diana Strong)Program: Youth in CubaCollection: Cuba
First part of cassette is a Radio Havana Cuba program on how youth in Cuba see Che Guevara (made a few days before his birthday). Second part is a never broadcast interview with Mexican revolutionary who was freed and came to Cuba as part of a guerrilla kidnapping. Interviewed by Lincoln Bergman, translation by Margaret Randall.
Voices from Radio Habana Cuba
Producers: Radio RebeldeCollection: Cuba
Sample from actual broadcast of Radio Rebelde, the clandestine station of the Cuban Revolution. The announcer introduces Fidel Castro, who calls for a general strike to defeat the Batista tyranny.
Haydee Santamaria
Reflections from Haydee Santamaria comparing her experiences with the birth of a revolution at Moncada to her experiences with childbirth.
Unfinished Spaces: Cuba's Architecture of Revolution
Publisher: Latino Public BroadcastingYear: 2013Call Number: V 753Format: DVDProducers: Elsa Jaffe, Jeffrey BrownCollection: Cuba
Cuba's ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro's Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.
Unfinished Spaces features intimate footage of Fidel Castro, showing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it also documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists.
The Uncompromising Revolution
Looks at current-day, 30 years after Fidel Castro's nationalist revolution. It shows the people, landscapes, large and small themes, to show the texture of Cuba after three decades of revolution. Weaving together archive footage, occasional flashbacks from earlier Landau pictures, recent personal interviews with Castro and scores of on-the-street and on-location interviews with women, professionals and workers. Landau tries to capture filmically what political scientists have tried to do empirically, that is, to understand Cuba 30 years after the revolution. Unlike his earlier films about Cuba, this one shatters any romantic notions about revolution. Cuba is more like a normal country. Although most people seem thoroughly convinced that the Cuban style of socialism if preferable to any other form of government, it is not any more with the enthusiasm of the years shortly after the revolution. A 102 years-old woman recalls the days of the Spaniards and the arrival of the Americans in 1898. The black and white images of history, marines charging San Juan hill, occupying the island, gambling and having fun in the casino's - make clear why Cubans remember their history and why the Americans and the rest of the world seem to have forgotten it.
Catching Up with Moncada
Poem about a young girl from U.S. opening her mind to the Cuban Revolution.
Cuba in Transition
Publisher: Armadillo PressDate: 10/1971Call Number: Volume Number: 1Format: MonographCollection: Cuba
I. History
"The Spanish Colony" historical overview of the colonization of Cuba by the Spanish up to the Spanish-American war when the United States assumed control over Cuba.
"The Republic" discusses U.S. control over Cuba and the birth of the "Cuban Republic" under the Platt Amendment.
"Batista" overview of the military coup staged by Batista and the mobilization of Castro's efforts to overthrow Batista.
"The Guerillas Take Over" the liberation of Cuba and the beginning of Castro's government.
II. Social Services
"Medicine" the redefining of medicine, from a business to a right guaranteed to all despite income or location of residence.
"Housing" passing of urban law reforms, reduced rents and made housing a right rather than a luxury for the rich.
"The Literacy Campaign" the mobilization of students to go out and teach literacy to the countryside. Attempts to increase literacy rates throughout the country and foster intellectual growth.
"Primary Education" institution of day care centers to begin education young and provide working class mothers with support
"Higher Education"increase in high school and technical schools to boost children's formal education and mobilize them for work in the community.
III. The Economy
"Development" investing in development in order to finance housing, medicine and education.
"Agrarian Reform" rural revolution, gave land grants to farmers and loans to boost their production.
"State Farms" transition from large plantations to state-owned farms to efficiently manage the lands and promote technological innovation
"Industry" overview of the staged of industrial development
"Workers"
IV. Ideas Behind the Revolution
"The New Man"
"Moral Incentive"
"Cuba Si, Yankee No"
"To Socialism"
"International Solidarity"
V. Making It Happen
"CDR's"
"People's Courts"
"Fidel"
"Youth"
VI. The Oppressed
"The Unemployed"
"Blacks"
"Women"
VII. Other Aspects of the Revolution
"Sports"
"Fine Arts"
"Media"
"Refugees"
"Rationing"
"Religion"
"Environment and Recreation"
VIII. Conclusion
"Democracy"
"Meanwhile in Latin America"
"The Future"
A Call To Combat: Radical Journalists' Statement of January 26, 1972
Following a trip to Cuba, a statement signed by 22 people/organizations reflecting on what they learned about revolutionary media and a call for the creation of a partisan press dedicated to combating imperialism, build regional and national cooperation among their presses and to share resources and information more effectively.